We continue to deliver fresh high-quality freebies to our readers, and we continue to pursue the diversity of subjects that we like to cover on Smashing Magazine. Since the beginning of the year, each icon set has been dedicated to a specific theme or topic that could be useful in your next project. Today, we are releasing two free high-quality icon sets.

Flavours Icon Set

Oliver Twardowski1, a graphic designer from Bonn, Germany, has put in a lot of time and effort to release this handy icon set especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. His set, aimed to help designers in their Web and user interface designs, contains 177 icons in a resolution of 48×48 pixels. The files are available for in the PNG and PSD sources, so you can modify the files as you wish.

As usual, the set is available as a free download and can be used for any purposes without any restrictions whatsoever. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sub-licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

Behind the scenes

As usual, here are some insights from the designer himself:

In November 2008 I designed and released my first icon set, Sketch’d up!6. This set was 100% vector-based and contained over 100 icons. After finishing it, I knew exactly what was the next task on my list. I wanted to create a pixel-based set of icons for websites and Web applications. For the size of the icons, I choose 48x48px, because for me this is the perfect size to fit on a website.

I never thought that it would be such a hard task to create an icon based on pixels that says what it has to say. Pixel by pixel, every single icon of “Flavour” was created over the weeks.

I am personally pretty satisfied with what came of it in the end. And I do really hope that you like it, too! Would be a pleasure to hear and see where you used it. Just drop me a line at icons [at] addictedtocoffee [dot] de. And who knows, maybe there’s a Part 2 of the “Flavour icon set” already in my head…

All the best from Bonn, Germany,
Oliver Twardowski

Thank you, Oliver, for your great work! We hope the second part of the set comes soon!

Cute Tweeters Icon Set

This set was designed by the talented Mirjami Manninen7, an illustrator from Finland who released the beautiful RSS feed set Feed Me Animals8 on Smashing Magazine last year. This new set contains eight transparent PNG icons for Twitter, available in resolutions of 128×128 pixels, 256×256 and 512×512. The sources are in EPS files (for CS4 and CS3), PSD files and AI files (for CS4).

Again, the set is available as a free download and can be used for any purpose without any restrictions whatsoever. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sub-licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

Behind the scenes

As usual, here are some insights from the designer herself:

I am an illustrator from Finland. While drawing for one design competition that was about Twitter, I started to really like this little bird, and decided to create a whole set for Smashing Magazine’s readers. I am very excited of the mesh tool in illustrator, andIi want to encourage all designers to try it. I have found it very helpful in my icon design. Greetings to all Smashing Magazine readers!

Mirjami Manninen

Thanks, Miriam, we really appreciate your efforts!

Suggestions for particular icon sets?

What icons would you like to be released on Smashing Magazine next? What are you looking for? And, more importantly, what kind of icons shouldn’t we release anymore? We appreciate your input in the comments to this post!

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Simon Harlinghausen

Frank Bailey

I would love to see a set of icons covering the basics of web applications from an administration perspective; a lot of the sets floating around right now tend to be focused on the front end – let’s give the back end come love too people! :D Awesome icons by the way, thank you!

Teddy Cheezy

Jhay

mambus

These are great !
I would like sets that can be used together on the various toolbars.
I would like to see more of this size, 48, and up.
I would like to see some that could be put on folders for things we really save, to customize the folders with the icon to match.
I would not like to see the same old “office” type.

Sean

James De Angelis

As to the question on what should be next, it would be great (as a working web designer) to get more useful icons for everyday use for sites and applications. Things that represent a process that you would typically like to assist in explaining with an icon (arrows, actions, help, mail, contact etc.)

And with what to include less, i think the social media icons and twitter stuff has been absolutely done to death (even though the ones listed are also very nice), maybe less of this?

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TasteYourMaker

Once upon a time, back in the wayfaring nomadic tribes, someone designed an icon of racist, hateful and violent things while the icy, glassine winds from the North pummeled down on the Vikings’ horny-type helmets.

And that icon caused the vikings to pillage and murder.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, guys. There’s nothing I like more than Twitter. But when will it stop? When will all of this twittering finally end?

Ryan

Sorin

Francois Botha

Since you’re asking, I’d actually like a set of icons that relates to the services an ISP would offer, e.g.
* E-mail
* WWW hosting
* VoIP
* Hardware setup
* Web login
* The above for both business and personal packages.
* Contact us, FAQ, etc
* Anything else you can think of

I imagine that these icons could be based on web.png of the Flavours icon set.

Moormeshosype

Chris

Been lurking here for a long time and thought I would pop in and say that I really enjoyed this article. I found a few of these tools very useful…and glad that some folks find type important on the web.

Ken

Rob

I love your work, thanks so much for sharing in.In answer to your question, I help run a few sports related boards and blogs and sports related icons are so so hard to find. In particular to do with our love of horse racing here in Australia. You would have a free place to stay in Oz if you ever made one available(jockey silks, binoculars, horses,scales, money, trophies etc…..Cheers

Andreas Fendri

sollarman

Marcy

I manage the website for a financial company and I have found this site to be useful for so many things and I love the creative ideas, but I would love to see a professional/corporate icon set, sleek and simple. Thanks!

Graham

Manuel

Thanks a lot for the icons, they are reaaly great. I really like twitter and the cute bird, so i designed also a icon-set. 6 Beach TWITTER ICON u can download on my site:My beach twittter icon set
please enjoy

odi

Interaria

Great twitter icons by Mirjami Manninen! As a Finnish web designer working in the USA I am so glad Finns are bringing their design skills to the international table! We’ll be promoting these icons for our USA and Finland based clients

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umer

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